THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Friday, February 13, 1981

Political, Economic Change Sought by Israel Movement

By YITZHAK RABI

(Copyright 1981, JTA, Inc.)

NEW YORK — Israel can
prosper and "stand on its
own feet" only if the present
political and economic sys-
tem is fundamentally
changed. This is, in essence,

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founded Azm'ut (Indepen-
dence) movement in Israel.
Dr. Ezra Sohar, the foun-
der and leader of the move-
ment, said that "We believe
the prevailing economic
system in Israel, a system
that gives the government
total control of all resources
and, therefore, is stifling
free enterprise, is
detrimental to the economy
and to the country's image."
Sohar, 58; a well-known
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began to be politically
active following the Yom
Kippur War, said that Is-
rael's social ills will not be
cured as long as the gov-
ernment budget exceeds the
gross national product.
He also charged that
"the massive foreign aid
and philanthropy Israel
receives do not
strengthen the country.
On the contrary. It has
weakened Israel by pro-
viding the power base
upon which the political
establishment and its in-
numerable bureaucrats
thrive and perpetuate the
distorted Israeli system
of government."
The Azma'ut movement,
with a few hundred mem-
bers so far and a couple of
thousand sympathizers, ac-
cording to Sohar, advocates
a free enterprise system in
Israel.
He claimed that "a free
economy in Israel is the only
way to attract Jews from
developed countries to come
and settle in Israel."
Sohar, who was active
with Ariel Sharon in the
Shlomzion movement sev-
eral years ago but left it be-
fore the 1977 national elec-
tions, said that in his cur-
rent visit to the United
States he wants to bring
American Jewry a "mes-
sage of optimism."
"We believe that Israel
can be self-supporting,
that it has the human re-
sources to create and de-
velop a sophosticated
technological economy
based on the toil of its
citizens and can assure,
in return, a high standard
of living," Sohar said.
The failure in Israel is
not a failure of people but
a failure of a system, and
this is what I want to con-
vey to American Jews."
He said that American
Jews can do a great deal for

Israel, but by investing
rather than by giveing
"charity." He claimed that
"by giving charity, Ameri-
can Jews only strengthen
the bureaucracy in Israel,
which is one of the major ills
of the country."
Asked to define the Az-
ma'ut movement in the tra-
ditional political terminol-
ogy of either left, center or
right, Sohar declined. He
said, however, that his
movement supports Jewish
settlements on the West
Bank established by private
citizens with no gov-
ernmental support.
He expressed the belief
that his movement will be-
come better known to the Is-
raeli public in the months
ahead and, as a result, Az-
ma'ut will have some repre-
sentatives in the next Knes-
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